Physics of sound production - does the bow stick actually make a difference?

ARod

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Posted 12 November 2013 - 01:33 PM

Yes, I think that the bow has an enormous effect on the sound.

The bow isn't just a stick that keeps the hair at the right tension to play the string. One could argue that a violin string of the right thickness, weight and tension should do it's job, and sound on a fiddle, but we all know that there's much more to strings than that, and that they can make or break a fiddle's sound. So too the bow.